Couldnt get any value from accelerometer

Question

I am using accelerometer MMA766 to read values. Used the following commands

root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# i2cdetect -y 1
     0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f
00:          -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
30: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 4c -- -- -- 
50: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
60: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
70: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --                         
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# i2cdump -y 1 0x4c b
     0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f    0123456789abcdef
00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    ................
10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    ................
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    ................
30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    ................
40: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    ................
50: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    ................
60: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    ................
70: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    ................
80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    ................
90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    ................
a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    ................
b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    ................
c0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    ................
d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    ................
e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    ................
f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    ................
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# 

Why I couldn't read any values?

UPDATE:

I followed the instructions in this link. What I used to connect is

• Connect VCC to the first pin on the front row (near label P1)
• Connect SDA to the second pin on the front row
• Connect SCL to the third pin on the front row
• Connect GND to the fifth pin on the front row

Answer 1

What were you actually expecting as output from the

i2cdump 

command? That nearly only works well for memory chips and I guess RTCs, or chips that without any request output something (Temperature Sensors, some not all of them).

This IC needs some stimulation in the form of some settings before it outputs something usefull. I assume you're talking about the Freescale MMA7660FC (There is also a Bosch component that is called MMA766, but that dissipates 15W so, I don't think we're talking about that):

According to the datasheet, it has a couple of modes of operation (page 9), it needs to have power supplied to the DVDD AND the AVDD pins before it will even start to think about doing something. (It will otherwise be in Power Down mode or Standby mode).

If you did not read this datasheet yet, I urge you to read it, it contains a lot of information about how to use this chip, and how to set the configuration to make it do what you want.

And please confirm that we're talking about the same chip, because otherwise it is very difficult to help you.